Penis theft on the rise!

[The Heretic]

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Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
By Joe Bavier
Tue Apr 22, 1:24 PM ET
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.

"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.

Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.

"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.

 

[shoulderblade]

Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs

Can you imagine living somewhere with this shit going on?

 

[Songcatcher]

Dumb savages.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Can you imagine living somewhere with this shit going on?

Like you wouldn't be pissed if someone tried to cop your pecker? Just one reason why I take mine everywhere.

 

[Bollock_Head]

Dumb savages.

They're niggers, what do you expect?

 

[Spence99]

Penis theft by its other name = marriage.

 

[great lover]

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You must have busybody on iggy.

 

[Songcatcher]

They're niggers, what do you expect?

Nyeahh!

 

[The Heretic]

You must have busybody on iggy.

Yup - him and a couple hundred other idiots.

 

[WolfenPredator]

Penis theft by its other name = marriage.

Ain't /that/ the fuckin' truth...

 

[great lover]

Yup - him and a couple hundred other idiots.

he posted the same article from Reuters earlier today.

 

[huskie]

Penis theft by its other name = marriage.

does that explain the shrinkage too?

 

[Duralast]

At first I considered this to be a great idea for a Return of the Penis Snatchers entry for a local film fest. BUT if run aside some stock footage of our (the US's) daily media shows, it would work for a Michael Moore take on The Culture of Fear.

Interesting find...

 

[evocative]

I have them mounted above my mantle.

 

[curious2c]

"So, you want a permit to carry a handgun sir?"

"Yes. A hand gun that shoots silver bullets."

"Do you carry large amounts of money at times?"

"Nope."

"Are you a body guard, protecting someone?"

"Nope."

"Has your life been threatened?"

"Nope."


"Then why would you want a permit to carry a gun that shoots silver bullets? Don't tell me you believe in Werewolves and Vampires!"

"Nope."


"Then... why?"

"My penis needs protection."


"WHAT?!"

"My penis. I read that there are witch doctors that will shrink and steal your penis if you piss them off or if they just want your penis."

"How would a gun protect you from that?"

"Not the gun, the silver bullets. Those suckers will take out any old witch doctor."

"Could I interest you in a jacket like that white one over there on the wall? It has arms that can go clear around you two times... that should protect you. It also comes with two 'guards' too."

"Hmmmm... how much would that cost me?"

 

[CozyIsNawt]

Ah, so this is where that, sleeping with your hands over your penis, thing started.

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